Gareth Bale a doubt for Real Madrid's Champions League semi-final with Bayern Munich due to flu

Gareth Bale is a major doubt for Wednesday night’s Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich after being kept at home away from the rest of squad as they stayed overnight at the club’s private hotel at their Valdebebas training ground.

Carlo Ancelotti’s players all stayed together on Tuesday night at the club’s training complex with the exception of the Welshman who had complained of nausea and is a huge doubt.

Real will give him as long as possible to recover but Angel Di Maria is poised to move forward in attack alongside Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema with Isco coming into the side in midfield.

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Major doubt: Gareth Bale is suffering with flu ahead of the semi final

Nose for a goal: Ronaldo is put through his paces at a Real training session

Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti is also
sweating on the fitness of Cristano Ronaldo. The Portuguese star is set
to have a late fitness test ahead of the game.

If Bale does miss the game it will be a blow to Ancelotti, who was full of praise for Bale in his pre-match press conference.

Bale is flying high after scoring a spectacular winner in the Copa del Rey final against Barcelona last week and his manager promised the £86million signing from Tottenham will be even more effective in his second season in Spain.

'Gareth is quite happy,' said Ancelotti. 'He is motivated with a lot of confidence after a goal like the goal he scored against Barcelona in the final. I don’t think the goal will scare Bayern but a goal like this will always bring more confidence.

'He had a few problems in the beginning but he was comfortable with everyone at the club from the moment he started to train. Now he is really good. He has scored a lot of goals. He plays for the team.

'He is going to improve next season. When he starts to train with us in the summer he will not have to play at the World Cup. I think next season he will be better. We can be really happy for next season.'